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Caribou Biosciences Announces Appointment of Stephen J. Schuster, MD, to its Scientific Advisory Board
-- Dr. Schuster is a world-renowned hematologist and pioneer in CAR-T cell therapy development -- BERKELEY, Calif., May 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Caribou
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[{"type":"text","content":"-- Dr. Schuster is a world-renowned hematologist and pioneer in CAR-T cell therapy development -- BERKELEY, Calif., May 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Caribou Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRBU), a leading clinical-stage CRISPR genome-editing biopharmaceutical company, today announced the appointment of Stephen J. Schuster, MD, to its scientific advisory board (SAB). Dr. Schuster is an expert in treating patients with lymphoma and developing novel treatments, including pioneering the development of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapies. “It’s an honor to have Dr. Schuster join our SAB. Dr. Schuster is a highly esteemed global leader in the lymphoma field and played an integral part in the development of the world’s first commercial CAR-T therapy,” said Rachel Haurwitz, PhD, Caribou’s president and chief executive officer. “Dr. Schuster’s dedication to patient care and cell therapy research and development offers Caribou invaluable perspectives. We have appreciated his advice as we move forward into second-line large B cell lymphoma patients for the dose expansion portion of the ongoing ANTLER Phase 1 clinical trial and advance additional therapies from our CAR-T cell therapy platform.” Dr. Schuster is the Robert and Margarita Louis-Dreyfus Professor of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Lymphoma and the director of the Lymphoma Program and Lymphoma Translational Research at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, with Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center. With a medical career spanning over 40 years, he is a world-renowned hematologist-oncologist with expertise in lymphoma and related diseases. His clinical and translational research has resulted in over 200 peer reviewed articles and participation in numerous clinical trials. After graduating AOA from Jefferson Medical College and completing his residency at Pennsylvania Hospital, Dr. Schuster completed clinical and research fellowships at the Cardeza Foundation for Hematologic Research. In 1989, he became a member of the Cardeza Foundation at Jefferson Medical College. Dr. Schuster joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1998. “Caribou’s approach to developing CRISPR genome-edited allogeneic cell therapies has demonstrated encouraging six-month antitumor responses from CB-010 at the initial dose level evaluated in the ANTLER trial,” said Dr. S...